In 1958, while on a golfing holiday in Cuba, Johnny Weissmuller ran into a serious problem. A group of rebel soldiers involved in the Cuban Revolution who were threatening to kidnap him and his US companions.

Olympics after the Second World War, the 1948 London Games, the silver medal in the light heavyweight weightlifting

Harold Sakata of the United States earns Olympic weightlifting silver in the light heavyweight class

Ukraine's Oleksiy Torokhtiy has been stripped of his men's 105-kilogram weightlifting title following

Testing Agency and the athlete reached an “acceptance of consequences”.This relates to an International Weightlifting

has been blighted by a series of positive retests of samples from the respective Games.Nine of the 15 weightlifting

International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) director general Attila Adamfi is confident the organisation's

future plans, after they signed an updated agreement earlier this year.The deal effectively assured weightlifting

been conditional because of its poor doping record, before the International Olympic Committee ruled weightlifting

support and implement the many steps undertaken by IWF to promote a doping-free culture in the sport of weightlifting

International Rugby League (IRL) has announced the appointment of Stuart Cummings as its match official manager.

Football League match officials director.He has also held roles in officiating departments in netball and weightlifting

Cikamatana, the 20-year-old who has quickly established herself as one of the most exciting young talents in weightlifting

now competes for Australia, was "happy but not happy" with her efforts at the Shengxin International Weightlifting

She makes people take notice of weightlifting - she's going to be one of the very best."

in Rome in January, but whatever happens she cannot qualify for Tokyo 2020.A dispute within Fijian weightlifting

Olympic qualifying, during which time she took up Australian citizenship.Deng Wei continues to grow as a weightlifting

Bekzad Nurdauletov and Elizabet Tursynbayeva received Athlete of the Year awards from the Kazakhstan National Olympic Committee at their annual award ceremony.

 Alla Vazhenina was presented with the gold medal from the women's under-75kg weightlifting category

Chinese city Tianjin is set to play host to an International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Cup

Coast 2018, Cikamatana was competing for Fiji and on course to become her homeland's first Olympic weightlifting

Fernando Reis, the Brazilian weightlifter who finished fifth in his home Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, is convinced he can win a medal at Tokyo 2020 and give the sport a huge boost in the process.

Brazil, the fifth largest country in the world by population, has never won a weightlifting medal at

the Olympic Games or the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) World Championships.Nobody has

If we are smart enough we can get more people into training, make weightlifting more popular, make good

s very, very bad for the sport, it’s a shame," Reis said.To read Brian Oliver's blog "Absence makes weightlifting

There has been a lot of angry talk recently from "clean" weightlifters who feel they were cheated out of a fair chance during decades of doping by other countries.

qualifying lists, and there is cause for optimism in a number of nations that have never won an Olympic weightlifting

male medallist.Chile, Ecuador and Dominican Republic are all contenders despite never having won a weightlifting

event on the schedule, the men’s super-heavyweights.Three other nations that have never won an Olympic weightlifting

best are likely absentees as a direct result of their Federation being penalised by the International Weightlifting

Given that a medal for Reis could have a huge impact on the growth of weightlifting in Brazil, the world

One of the four gold medals that the legendary Jesse Owens won during the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin has sold for $615,000 (£468,000/€556,000) at auction.

., an Olympic weightlifter who befriended Owens and received it from him.Terpak, the world weightlifting

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) made the right moves as far as the International Olympic

no imminent return for Thailand now, despite a request to the Executive Board from the Thai Amateur Weightlifting

unity and wisdom when supporting the progressive proposals that confirm our commitment towards clean weightlifting

The strength of Tamás Aján's leadership of the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will be tested

as a backward step would "fail to honour our commitment to athletes, member federations, the global weightlifting

letter sent to Intarat Yodbangtoey, first vice-president of the IWF and Honorary President of the Thai Weightlifting

whom come from the United States, Canada, Germany and New Zealand, nations that could be described in weightlifting

one meeting to the next,” Ursula Papandrea, head of the IWF women's commission and President of USA Weightlifting

Under Dr Aján’s leadership, weightlifting as an Olympic event has been in danger for 30 years," said

Hosts the Philippines added a further nine gold medals to their tally at the Southeast Asian Games today, moving onto 56 overall.

came third in 1:01.98.Among the other home winners was Kristel Macrohon in the women's 71 kilograms weightlifting

214kg and 203kg, respectively.The Philippines' Kristel Macrohon tasted victory in the women's 71kg weightlifting

A new biopic dedicated to the life of Turkey's three-time Olympic gold medal-winning weightlifter, Naim Süleymanoğlu, has been released at cinemas in his home country.

20th century and received an Olympic Order in 2001.Süleymanoğlu was also a member of the International Weightlifting

The Russian Weightlifting Federation (RWF) has launched an internal investigation after a television

accounts for most of the 12 doping violations by Russian weightlifters announced by the International Weightlifting

suggested there had been state-sponsored doping and cover-ups in Russian sport.Russia’s athletics and weightlifting

Russian Weightlifting Federation President Maxim Agapitov has vowed to take action against guilty athletes

Russian Weightlifting Federation declares that it will always adhere to the policy of zero tolerance

Cheaters are not the members of the Russian Weightlifting Family."